Trying to govern the CPU in MiniMe on an EeePC.

[BJF]

MiniMe Full, updated, installed on an 8Gb SD. Celeron processor, 1Gb RAM.

Giving MiniMe a try on my EeePC 701, I find the only power profile available is performance. Having successfully modified my HP laptop using Tex's method I tried it on the Eeep.
I did cpufreq-info as root and got:

[mdm@localhost ~]$ su root
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# cpufreq-info
cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009
Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please.
analyzing CPU 0:
  no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU
  maximum transition latency: 0.00 ms.
[root@localhost ~]#

So I went off and read the search results of "governor" on the Forum but nothing looked like a solution to my problem. Too afraid of breaking something, to be truthful.
On this same machine another distro that runs in RAM has full control over the power profiles and fan, so I know it can be done.

Would a patient soul familiar with this please assist?

Thanks.
 

[YouCanToo]

My first question would be is the service actually running???

[BJF]

Fair enough. PCC>System>Manage.... shows cpufreq running, and cpufreqd stopped. Both start on boot. Forgot to mention that.

[Trio3b]

Google "cpufreq / p4-clockmod (if this is your module)- not working"  and you may run across many threads such as this one -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101464 .

1. Other threads indicate that although user software shows various "steps" in use / available, the processor may or may not be actually operating at those reported speeds. There are various debates as to whether or not it assists in battery life and /or heat issues depending on your hdwr configuration.

2. Check your processor on the Intel site to see if it even supports this feature. My Celeron does not.

Hope this helps

[BJF]

This from PCC>Hardware>

Identification
Processor ID: ‎1

Vendor: ‎GenuineIntel

Model name: ‎Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor          900MHz

Cpuid family: ‎6

Model: ‎13

Model stepping: ‎8

Cpuid level: ‎2

Performances
Frequency (MHz): ‎630.129

Cache size: ‎512 KB

Bogomips: ‎1260.25

Misc
Flags: ‎fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts

Any clues here? Have done a stack of research (Intel's site not helping) and apart from staying away from the p4-clockmod, it seems that results vary across distro's. If there are no clear checks and fixes in our distro for Intel Celeron M's, I shall have to suck it up and stay on "Performance".

Thanks. 

[Yankee]

MiniMe Full, updated, installed on an 8Gb SD. Celeron processor, 1Gb RAM.

Giving MiniMe a try on my EeePC 701, I find the only power profile available is performance. Having successfully modified my HP laptop using Tex's method I tried it on the Eeep.

After reading your post I activated conky and cpuspeed -p 50 50.

Watching the cpu speed (freq) go to ridiculously low levels and moderately
high levels depending on percent usage.   Low percent usage is supposed
to get high freq and high percent usage is supposed to get lower freq
speed to save power, etc..   A novel idea.    You might want to try it.

Going to experiment with cpuspeed -p 0 50 and cpuspeed -p 50 0
but I have to kill it first.

regards,

FF

ps. with gkrellm I always run at performance level and that's confirmed
also by conky freq reading.   Don't know how else to do it.

[Yankee]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,104710.msg893836.html#msg893836

Going to install this on my EeePC.